Edoardo Pezzini

Edoardo Pezzini completed his early studies in Turin at the "G. Verdi" Conservatory with Bruno Oddenino and Luigi Finetto.

At the same time, he collaborated with major orchestral ensembles such as the Young Talents Orchestra of the CRT Foundation of Turin and the Camerata Ducale Orchestra of Vercelli, with whom he had the opportunity to play alongside great soloists (Uto Ughi, Giuliano Carmignola, Angela Hewitt, Viktoria Mullova, Guido Rimonda, Trio Ciaikovskij) and to take part in the recording of two CDs for Decca Recordings ("Violon", "Le Violon Noir").

Other important collaborations include the Philharmonic of the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Orchestra of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Orchestra Metropolitana of Milan, the Turin Philharmonic Orchestra, the "G.B. Polledro" chamber orchestra, and numerous participations in chamber and orchestral ensembles at the Turin Conservatory.

Since September 2014, he has been part of Fabien Thouand's class at the Conservatory of Italian Switzerland in Lugano, where he earned his Bachelor's in Oboe in 2017. During 2016-2017, he was selected to take part in the summer tour of the National Jugend Orkest in Apeldoorn (Netherlands) and in the Ticino Musica festival in Lugano.

Later, in 2017, he was admitted to the class of J-L. Capezzali and Vincent Gay-Balmaz at the Haute École de Musique de Lausanne, where he earned a Master Concert in musical performance in 2019, and, at the end of that same year, passed the entrance exam for the Master Soloist, thanks to which he performed as a soloist with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne in Bohuslav Martinů's concerto for oboe and orchestra.

Also in 2019, he was a finalist at the VIIIth "Giuseppe Ferlendis" International Oboe Competition, won 2nd prize at the XXIIIrd "Luigi Nono" International Competition in the Soloists category, and at the end of November was selected to take part in the Barbirolli Oboe Festival and Competition, held at the end of March on the Isle of Man.

In September 2020, he won the Fondation Schenk soloist competition, through which he performed as a soloist with the Philarmonia Argovia. He was recently selected to take part in the 2021 Geneva Competition.